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Standup Guy
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Stone Barrington’s newest client brings mayhem in his wake in this “edge-of-your-seat adventure”* in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
After giving some legal advice to a walk-in client, Stone Barrington thinks he’s done with the man. But several people are keenly interested in John Fratelli’s activities and how they relate to a long-ago crime...and some of them will stop at nothing to find the information they desire.
On a hunt that leads from Florida’s tropical beaches to the posh vacation homes of the Northeast, Stone finds himself walking a tightrope between ambitious authorities and seedy lowlifes who all have the same prize in their sights. In this cutthroat contest of wills, it’s winner-takes-all—and Stone will need every bit of his cunning and resourcefulness to be the last man standing.
Stone Barrington’s newest client brings mayhem in his wake in this “edge-of-your-seat adventure”* in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
After giving some legal advice to a walk-in client, Stone Barrington thinks he’s done with the man. But several people are keenly interested in John Fratelli’s activities and how they relate to a long-ago crime...and some of them will stop at nothing to find the information they desire.
On a hunt that leads from Florida’s tropical beaches to the posh vacation homes of the Northeast, Stone finds himself walking a tightrope between ambitious authorities and seedy lowlifes who all have the same prize in their sights. In this cutthroat contest of wills, it’s winner-takes-all—and Stone will need every bit of his cunning and resourcefulness to be the last man standing.
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    Stone Barrington made it from his bed to his desk by ten AM, after something of a struggle with jet lag. Granted, the three-hour time change between Los Angeles and New York was not a killer, but it mattered. As soon as he sat down his intercom buzzed.

    “Yes?” he said to his secretary, Joan Robertson.

    “You have a visitor,” she said, “name of John Fratelli. Says he’s a friend of Eduardo.”

    “Send him in,” Stone said. Any friend of Eduardo Bianci’s was a friend of his.

    A vision of the mid-to-late twentieth century appeared in the doorway.

    “Mr. Barrington? May I come in?”

    “Of course,” Stone said, rising to greet his visitor, who was wearing a boxy, light gray flannel suit, a starched white shirt, and what appeared to be a clip-on bow tie. He was carrying a salesman’s suitcase and a porkpie hat and had a haircut that had probably been accomplished entirely with electric clippers—short sides and a Brylcreemed top. “Come in and have a seat, Mr. Fratelli.”

    “Thank you,” the man replied. “It’s nice of you to see me.” This was delivered in what appeared to be an old-fashioned Brooklyn accent, the likes of which had not been heard for many years from a man as young as Fratelli, who appeared to be no older than fifty. He came in and took the proffered chair across the desk and set down the suitcase.

    “How may I help you?” Stone said, hoping the man was not a salesman.

    Fratelli stood again, reached into a pocket, and pulled out a wad of bills; he peeled off five hundreds and placed them carefully on Stone’s desk.

    “All right,” Stone said, “you’ve paid for a consultation and bought yourself some attorney-client confidentiality.”

    “Good,” Fratelli said, sitting down again.

    “I should inform you, though, that if you confess to a crime and I end up representing you in court, I will not be able to call you to the stand to testify on your own behalf.”

    “Why not?” Fratelli inquired.

    “Because I cannot call a witness to the stand who I know will lie under oath.”

    “I understand,” Fratelli said. “That’s reasonable, I guess.”

    “How is Mr. Bianci?” Stone asked, by way of getting the man to relax.

    “Who?”

    “Did you not tell my secretary that Eduardo had sent you to me?”

    “Oh, I meant Eduardo Buono.”

    “Not Bianci?”

    “No, Buono.”

    “I don’t know anyone by that name,” Stone said.

    “Well, he knows you.”

    “How does he know me?”

    “He read an article about you in a magazine—Vanity Fair.”

    That magazine had published an excerpt from a book about Stone’s late wife, Arrington. “I’m afraid I—”

    “Eduardo says you’re a standup guy.”

    “Well, as kind a characterization as that may be—”

    “Eduardo and I shared a living space for twenty-two years.”

    “I’m happy for you both, but that still doesn’t—”

    “Eduardo was a very smart man, even if he did get caught.”

    “Ahhhh,” Stone said. Now he understood. “Where did you do your time, Mr. Fratelli?”

    “Sing Sing.”

    “And when did you get out?”

    “Yesterday afternoon.”

    “How long were you...

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  • Publisher's Weekly

    October 14, 2013
    A misunderstanding leads Stone Barrington to take on ex-con John Fratelli as a client at the start of bestseller Woods’s polished 28th outing for the suave New York City attorney (after 2013’s Doing Hard Time). Fratelli put his 25 years in Sing Sing to good use by protecting fellow prisoner Eduardo Buono, who rewarded his service by telling Fratelli how to retrieve $2 million in stolen but now technically legal money from a safe-deposit box. Stone’s advice to Fratelli causes complications that Stone isn’t able to handle with the ease fans have become accustomed to, though he continues to enjoy the considerable perks of good friends, fine food, and beautiful women. Alluring illustrator Henrietta “Hank” Cromwell gives Stone’s love life a boost. Fratelli’s bumpy transformation into a wealthy, retired entrepreneur amuses. Stone fences with federal agents, tangles with thugs, and faces the problem of dealing with $5 million in small bills in the liveliest Barrington novel in some time. Agent: Anne Sibbald, Janklow & Nesbit.

  • Kirkus

    January 1, 2014
    New York attorney Stone Barrington (Doing Hard Time, 2013, etc.) reaps the whirlwind after advising a walk-in client how to live safely on several million dollars in ill-gotten gains. John Fratelli is a stand-up guy. Jailed 25 years ago for armed robbery, he did his time, kept his mouth shut and patiently waited to get out. Now he's out, along with the key to a safe deposit box his cellmate, Eduardo Buono, bequeathed him. The box contains Buono's disproportionate share of the proceeds from the robbery of the freight terminal at JFK (remember that?), and Fratelli, who's heard that Stone's a stand-up guy too, wants his advice about what to do with it. Stone gives him some elementary pointers and sends him on his way. Fratelli's danger seems minimal, since the statute of limitations has long run out on the heist. But evidently not for a pair of Secret Service agents who get interested in the case; or for a retired FBI agent who's determined to cut himself in; or for wiseguy Onofrio "Bats" Buono, who thinks that as Eddie's nephew, he's entitled to the money himself. So Fratelli keeps phoning Stone for more advice, and every conversation enmeshes Stone more deeply in his troubles. Which would be fine if Stone weren't also fielding big-deal calls from British fashion designer Emma Tweed, who wants to know how to catch whoever's stealing her designs, and Katherine Rule Lee, the first lady who wants Stone to help her launch her otherwise hush-hush candidacy to succeed her husband as president. The subplots lead nowhere, and the main upshot of Fratelli's little problem is some uncharacteristically salty language.

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  • Booklist

    November 1, 2013
    A hefty load of ill-gotten cash is at the heart of Stone Barrington's problems in the latest entry in Woods' (Doing Hard Time, 2013) long-running series. When ex-con John Fratelli pays Stone a visit seeking legal advice about the $2 million his cellmate bequeathed him, Stone helps Fratelli around some of the potential illegalities of the situation, given that the cash was obtained more than two decades ago in a robbery. Once Fratelli, grateful for the advice, takes off for Florida, Stone thinks he's seen the last of him, and he never imagines that he'll get wrapped up in a dogged pursuit of the money. But soon an ex-cop, the Secret Service, and a determined thug are questioning Stone about its whereabouts. The thug proves especially problematic, grabbing Stone's latest paramour and holding her hostage for $5 million. Woods sets up a potentially interesting presidential bid that will presumably be explored in future installments, but this outing is fairly run-of-the-mill and predictable at times. And do we really need multiple scenes of Fratelli golfing with his girlfriend?(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)

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